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Julie Burchill
British Journalist
Born: Jul 3, 1959
Being Me Men People Women You
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I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame. Julie Burchill
Walk Rest Stars Almost Red Red Carpets Hear Fame Crave Us Much Choke Youngsters Popcorn Who Film Film Stars
The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps. Julie Burchill
Me Woman Fear Free Own Says Feminist Times Should Body Her Right
Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off. Julie Burchill
Stripping See More Shameful Covering Truly Off Up Than Behaviour Often Far
Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Julie Burchill
Eye Of The Beholder Beauty Eye Shame Like Often Beholder
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history? Julie Burchill
Great History Past Never Come How Been Politically Nostalgic Personally
People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days. Julie Burchill
Myself People Innocent Older Back Find More More And More Days Yearn Times Get Jaded Often Hankering After
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? Julie Burchill
Women Living Empire Like Looks Conducting Did Themselves Whose Start
As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined. Julie Burchill
Life Women My Life Define Kid About Both Like Real Hearing Moaning Bang Sitting Aches Behind Want Grew Bus Them Pains Imagined
No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control. Julie Burchill
Sad Fashion Woman Matter Old Glorious Control Indeed Rather Sees Self-Expression How Than Models Social Agent Means Who
I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist. Julie Burchill
God Old Believe Christian Jews Well Understand Lord Feminist Testament Literally Old Testament Whom Socialist Zionist
Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule. Julie Burchill
Husband Parents Rule Say Someone Exception Generally Had Like Proved Proverbial Families Who Suck
Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so. Julie Burchill
Drop Half Think Tribe More Footprint She Still Than Any Modest Bogus Who Keep Believes Carbon Mummy Dozen
What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? Julie Burchill
Beauty Mirrors Know Sort Smoke Smoke And Mirrors Done Anyway Sap Now
Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one. Julie Burchill
Love Wise Women Men Way Out Give Fact Thus Most Go Lots Women Are Them
I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched. Julie Burchill
People Thought Beauty Pay Bit Touched Feel Like Alternative Female Always Equivalent Essentially Hollow Who Therapy Treatments
'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification. Julie Burchill
Women Stress Healthy Every State Spoke Feel Explain Used Regularly Why Need
Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe. Julie Burchill
Mother Monroe Strive Out Some Cross Seems Between Particular Sort Mother Teresa Her Nicole Nicole Kidman Portray Bring Marilyn Marilyn Monroe
These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney. Julie Burchill
Business Women Beauty Out Part Put Partly Got Least George Male George Clooney Clooney Themselves Much Showbiz Showing Whose
The secret is not to care what anyone thinks of you. Julie Burchill
You Care Secret Anyone Thinks
I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago. Julie Burchill
Man Fool Long Seem More Days Know How Any Deceiving
No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'. Julie Burchill
You Man Ignorance Women Hide Men Own One-Man More Individual No-One Know Knows Lots Yes Than Trying Any Anyone Might Even
The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses. Julie Burchill
Money Result Own Pay Mince Circus Willingly Pocket My Own Could Miss Smelling Came Were Cultural Off Mouths Being Experiences Bread Poor Roses Thing Here
When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common. Julie Burchill
Great Me Light Great Deal Thought Country Live Think Neither City London Seemed Struck Both Perfect Town Like Deal Nor Years Common Moved Place Which Apart Actually Brighton
Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years. Julie Burchill
Think Mine Favourite Restless Hotel Particular Years South
Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist. Julie Burchill
Bent Bitter Seems More Crowded Never Tourist Nor Than Bridges Amsterdam
One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.' Julie Burchill
Christmas Me Totally Town Build-Up Doing Tradition However Up Going Show
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